Comments on: ABC: Rubio not being vetted for Veepstakeshttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/
The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast networkTue, 16 Feb 2016 23:43:33 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1By: TeaPartyNationhttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5940096
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:25:34 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5940096Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to believe ANYTHING from the A(lways)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network ?
]]>By: DanaSmileshttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5939771
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:56:12 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5939771if Marco Rubio truly wants to earn the title of An American Son, he should immediately pronounce himself “ineligible” for the offices of President and Vice President and explain why, which would immediately turn all focus upon the current Fraud-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, and secure the defeat of Obama’s international assault on the United States of America. If Rubio does not do this immediately, he is not what many Tea Party supporters had hoped…
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:34:19 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5939683Here is an update to this story Ed. If we can rely on Buzzfeed.
]]>By: Mister Metshttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5939638
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:21:46 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5939638It would be funny if it turns out Rubio’s camp is just better at controlling leaks than all the others.
]]>By: Buy Danishhttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5939630
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:19:24 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5939630*Per Fox News, “He called out ABC News by name and called it “entirely false”.*
]]>By: Buy Danishhttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5939618
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:17:20 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5939618*Romney just stated that Rubio is being “thoroughly vetted”*
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:23:04 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5939063

Why would any Republican want to leak the fact that Rubio’s not even being seriously considered for VP, especially at a moment when Obama’s just made a splash with Latino voters via his new DREAM policy?

1. Because Rubio has said several times that not only was he not angling for the job, he would not take the job even if offered.

2. Rubio would be no help with “Latino” voters. He is Cuban. Cuban immigrants are kind of like Puerto Ricans. They don’t have immigration “issues”. We generally don’t deport Cubans arriving here. Rubio would give no traction with voters from Mexico and Central America. For that, Romney would have to go for someone like Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval.

The worst thing about Rubio’s statement that if he came from a poor nation he would come to THIS nation ILLEGALLY, too, is that he is encouraging MORE illegal immigration. HE is in fact, legitimizing those who seek to willfully disregard existing federal immigration law and he, as a Senator is eroding national sovereignty to pander to illegal aliens and their supporters.

thatsafactjack on June 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM

No he isn’t.

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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:02:40 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5938968Can you make this report about Rubio jibe with the report that Mitt Romney says that not even his wife knows who is being vetted. Only the person in charge, Beth Myers, and Mitt Romney know this. So are they saying that people on the staff know and are leaking? Then more people than Mitt and Beth know. They are contradictory statements.
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:51:48 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5938937The worst thing about Rubio’s statement that if he came from a poor nation he would come to THIS nation ILLEGALLY, too, is that he is encouraging MORE illegal immigration. HE is in fact, legitimizing those who seek to willfully disregard existing federal immigration law and he, as a Senator is eroding national sovereignty to pander to illegal aliens and their supporters.

Its shameful and irresponsible and conduct unworthy of a US Senator.

His statement that the US should treat these illegal aliens with ‘common decency’ implies that we have NOT, thus far, treated illegal aliens with ‘common decency’. The fact is that we have treated the illegal aliens at large in this nation with an UNCOMMON degree of DECENCY. We have provided education and medical care for them free of charge to them.. at TAXPAYER EXPENSE…. and we have allowed them access to our court system and bent over backwards to treat them with civility and consideration of their human rights. We have, in fact, spent over $113 BILLION/YEAR on social service specifically for illegal aliens. When one adds up how much has been spent over the 26 years since Ronald Reagan’s Amnesty the largess and generosity of the American people is unparalleled. Compare how this nation treats its illegal aliens with how MEXICO, where the majority of our illegal aliens originated, and just how decent and generous the American people have been is starkly and readily apparent.

It is an insult to every American that Marco Rubio, in order to curry favor with a specific demographic, has implied that Americans lack ‘common decency’ in dealing with the many MILLIONS of illegal aliens who’ve willfully shattered our federal immigration laws.

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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:18:35 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5938651I’m starting to think of Rubio as McCain Jr. Any ‘immigration reform’ that features legalization of illegals aliens is a non-starter, without slamming the border shut and repelling boarders is a non-starter.
]]>By: bocathttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5938635
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:12:44 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5938635“Rubio not being vetted for Veepstakes”

Is this a surprise to anyone?

Didn’t we already try an affirmative action candidate with barely two years in the senate as president?

Leave the identity politics to the democrats- so please shut up with your Marco Rubios, Nikki Haleys, and Allen Wests for VP.

Additionally, Hamilton submitted a proposed draft that read, “No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States.”

John Jay wrote to Washington, saying, “Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”

Obviously citizen and natural born citizen are not synonymous nor interchangeable, and each held a specific meaning that the Framers – and the ratifiers – understood.

OF COURSE Rubio is not being vetted.
Only Natural Born Citizens should be considered.
That leaves Jindal out, too.

I wonder how many times this will get posted in the next months. Natural born citizenship has nothing to do with your parents and is not defined by the constitution. Its defined by Congress. We’ve had numerous presidents with immigrant parents.

cpaulus on June 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM

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That’s beyond ignorant. If natural born citizen were the same as (plain) citizen, why do the Constitutional requirements for President & VP specifically differ from requirements for senators & representatives (they must be US “citizens” for at least 9 yrs & 7 yrs, respectively)?

Only POTUS & VPOTUS say “no one but a natural born Citizen…”
cpaulus, if you want to LEARN something further on the subject of what the Supreme Court has said regarding the importance & meaning of ALL 4400 words in the Constitution, look up their ruling on Marbury v Madison (established the principle of judicial review)
“It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect; and, therefore, such a construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it.”

]]>By: 1andymanhttps://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/19/abc-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veepstakes/comment-page-2/#comment-5938492
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:41:54 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5938492Marco knows he does not meet the eligibility requirements for VPOTUS (or POTUS). If the Romney campaign did not know the facts about Rubio’s parentage and asked if he wanted to be considered, he would have declined saying he wasn’t a natural born Citizen. Rubio seems like a nice guy, but that isn’t good enough to meet the rules for office.
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:23:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=201822#comment-5938388

As someone who bets on Intrade I am betting heavy on DeMint for VP. There is a reason why nobody talks about him. And why he never criticized Romney

Demint even had a poll on his site. On who Romney should choose as VP

I cannot think of a better choice to energize the evengelicle vote. And someone to defend Romney from the Mormon onslaught coming in September
Mark Levine will be fully on board once DeMint is picked :)

Natural born citizenship has nothing to do with your parents and is not defined by the constitution. Its defined by Congress. We’ve had numerous presidents with immigrant parents.
cpaulus on June 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM

This is more ignorance. Natural born citizenship has everything to do with your parents, and it is NOT defined by Congress. It was a meaning known to the sovereign people who ratified the Constitution.

Immigrant parents is a red herring. Having an immigrant parent is meaningless. It is whether that parent is an American citizen at the time of their child’s birth that matters.

Natural born citizenship has nothing to do with your parents and is not defined by the constitution. Its defined by Congress. We’ve had numerous presidents with immigrant parents.
cpaulus on June 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM

Wrongo, kool-aid breath.

While NBC is not defined in the Constitution, there is lots of evidence out there for anyone interested in looking for what the Founders understood the term to mean, and SCOTUS as much as defined the term in Minor vs Happersett.

EVERY President born AFTER the adoption of the Constitution has been born in America, to parents that were BOTH American Citizens at the time of his birth (immigrant or not).